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dancers of the night

Tea- The Chosen One

Luckygirl777

Lady-Wicca666

Takashi Kusinagi

Egyptianprincess101

Summary: He had all of the fame and fortune in the world, but all he wanted was someone that would treat him like he was normal as anyone else. He might get his wish when he meets a cafe waitress who is having problems of her own. Will they be able to help each other?

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! I just own the story.

Chapter 3

"F-fiancee?" Tea whispered. Rachel smirked evilly.

"Of course, we are going to be happily married running our company together." she said. Tea looked over to Atem who was trying to pull his arm away from Rachel and she walked over to the door to leave. Once she had her coat, she left the house without saying a word. Atem finally got out of Rachel's grip and ran to the door to try and stop Tea.

"Tea, wait!" He rushed to leave and follow her when he was stopped by Rachel pulling him back inside.

"Forget about her Atem. I have planned a special night for us and I want to spend it with you without interruptions." she said as she drew circles on his chest with her finger. Atem was furious at the moment and he pushed her off of him again.

"I am going to find Tea and when I get back, I expect you to be gone. If not, then there is going to be alot of hell to pay." He rushed outside to get into his car and start his search for Tea. She couldn't have gone far so he thought of where she could have gone to in the minutes that she left. He thought of all of the places that they went to today and he suddenly had a hunch of where she could be. So he made a u-turn and drove around to the park. He was driving for a couple of minutes when he finally arrived and got out of the car to walk to the entryway and that's when he found her sitting up against the tree facing the pond. He breathed a sigh of relief knowing that she was safe and nothing happened to her. Clearing his thoughts of worry, he walked over to Tea and sat down next to her. Tea was staring at the duck pond oblivious to anything around her thinking about what happened when she left Atem's house. She was startled out of her thoughts by someone sitting down next to her and she turned to see Atem beside her. She glared at him and turned back to look out at the water.

"What do you want?" she asked. Atem was staring at the back of her head.

"I had came to find you to try and explain." he said. She stood up form her seat and turned to face him again.

"What is there to explain? You have a fiancee and you're getting married, I think that explains alot. So how was it? Did you get a gut-burning, hilarious kick out of listening to me tell my sob story to you? Well I hope it was really funny to you because now you can tell your fiancee all about it when you go on your stupid honeymoon with her!" she said with rage on her face. Atem got up and stepped over to her and she moved back to avoid being near him.

"Tea, you got it all wrong." he tried explaining.

"Oh really, then why don't you enlighten me and make it seem clear to me so that I won't have it all wrong. It won't matter anyway, I'm just glad I found out about you before I-" she cut herself off before she said too much. Atem noticed that she stopped talking and walked a little closer to her. He took a hold of her arms and turned her to him.

"Before you what? Before you started to feel something? Is that it?" he asked. Tea looked up and retorted back.

"Why would I be feeling anything? We just met so that would be impossible." she said. Atem lifted her chin to look in her eyes and she looked into his.

"Haven't you ever heard of love at first sight? I believe that this is the exact situation."

"Yeah, just two things. One, I lost my belief in love when my ex hurt me and two, you're engaged to be married. So there's no point in whether I believe it or not." she said. Atem sighed.

"Tea, just let me explain to you what's going on." he said. Then he led her back over to the tree to sit back down. They were both quiet for a few minutes before Atem started.

"First of all, I am not engaged to her. Honestly, I don't even know why she even started this whole thing. It was at a business party where companies of high status get together and talk about how their businesses were profiting and making deals with each other. I couldn't stand going to those kinds of parties and I couldn't wait to leave. That's when I met Rachel. She was walking over to me with her father next to her and they introduced themselves. Her father was telling me how he had been thinking about merging with a company that was bringing in major high profits and asked me if I was interested in marrying his daughter and while I declined of course, that's when Rachel said that she thought it would be a great experience to work together. She gave me a look saying like she wasn't taking no for an answer. So again, I told them no and I walked away from them to stand outside to get some air. Thinking that I was alone, I heard someone behind me and turned to see Rachel standing there like she was up to something. I didn't trust her for a second and I kept my guard up around her. First it started out like she wanted to just talk, innocent enough, but then things began to be less innocent when she was moving close to me and that's when she tried to seduce me figuring that I would fall for her tricks. I sure surprised her when I refused her the first time, but she wouldn't give up until she got what she wanted. So I guess that's how the whole 'fiancee fiasco' started. Well that's the whole Rachel story and I know that you're taking time to process everything. So if you never want to talk to me again, I'll understand. At least I got a chance to know you and spend time with you." he finished with his head turning to the pond. Tea was a bit relieved to hear that he wasn't engaged, but real question was why?

'Why do I even care that he wasn't engaged? It's not like I have feelings for him or anything, do I?' She looked up to see that he was still facing the pond and as she looked closely, she can almost detect a little bit of fear in his eyes.

'He actually thinks that I hate him. Just by looking at him, he thinks this whole thing is his fault. I guess I should have let him explain first before I blew up at him like I did. I should be apologizing.' she thought. She reached her hand over to his and gave it a small squeeze. He turned to her and she had a smile on her face.

"Please don't think that I don't want to talk to you again because that is the last thing on my mind. I should apologize for blowing up at you like I did. Why didn't you just tell me all of this before?" she asked. Atem looked down to their intertwined hands.

"I guess I didn't think it would matter and you didn't have to apologize. I didn't blame you for being angry and if I had told you from the start, this whole thing would have been avoided."

"Yeah, but I'm still sorry anyway. I guess, I was just afraid that I was going to get hurt again. Having that feeling would be like having my heart ripped out and not being able to put it together again." she said. Atem smiled warmly to her and held her hand much tighter.

"That is one thing that you don't ever have to worry about Tea. I just can't understand why anyone would want to hurt someone as beautiful as you." he said. Tea had a tint of red on her face and turned away from him.

"You're sweet, but I'm not that beautiful." she said. Atem turned her face back to him with his hand.

"Are you kidding? You are very beautiful, it was one of the things that attracted me to you, especially your blue eyes."

"Well, you're not so bad yourself." she said teasing him.

"Oh, thanks I- Hey!" he said with a playful glare. Tea laughed at the look on his face and Atem joined in with her. They were still laughing when they felt a sudden chill blow through. Tea started shivering and rub her arms to create some heat. Atem stood up with Tea following him.

"We should head on back. Would you like to go home?" he asked. Tea looked at her watch and saw that it was a little after seven. She turned to look at him and smiled.

"If you don't mind, I was hoping we could finish our drinks that we started before we were interrupted. Besides, I have to help clean the mess that I made when I dropped my glass on the floor." she said sheepishly. Atem chuckled.

"Oh that's alright, it's no harm done. Glasses can be replaceable, but I don't think there's another Tea anywhere."

"You know that was really corny, but it was sweet." she said.

"Well excuse me for being corny." he said sarcastically. Tea rolled her eyes and giggled.

"C'mon, I want to hurry up and get out of the cold." she grabbed his hand and they walked over to Atem's car. They drove to his house and arrived minutes later. When they stepped out of the car and went inside, they were met with an unexpected person. Rachel was still there on the sofa drinking out of a wine glass. She looked up when she heard the door open and had a satisfying expression when Atem came through the door, but her expression quickly changed to a menacing glare when she saw Tea come in behind him. She put down her glass and walked over to them.

"Hello honey, what is she doing here?" she asked. Atem had a blank stare when he saw Rachel still in his house.

"The question is what are you still doing here when I clearly told you that I wanted you to leave my house." he said.

"You didn't expect me to just leave, do you? I have just as much right to be here. It's her that should be leaving." Atem and Tea was looking at her like she had extra heads growing. She was completely clueless.

"You don't have any right to be here because we're not engaged and Tea is here because I invited her." Rachel glared.

"You don't know what you're doing. If you would just marry me, then you could have the power of two companies. You would be known for your fame all over the world, but you rather spend your time with a commoner. So you have a choice, me or her." she sneered. Atem pretended to think about it by placing a finger on his chin.

"Hmm, that's a toughie. On one hand, I marry you and get all of the riches in the world that comes to me. On the other hand, I still have my company, but don't get as much recognition I would get if I had two companies merge into one." Once Atem made a decision, he walked over to wrap his arm around...

Rachel.

Tea gasped at what Atem had done and wondered if it was an act or if he really made his decision. Rachel smirked and did a victory dance in her head. She and Atem walked over to the door and opened it. She turned around to look at Tea.

"Well sweetheart, I guess my Atem has made his choice. I'm really sorry though, actually I'm not. Be sure to read about us in the papers when we have our wedding announced." Atem pulled her to stand in front of him.

"Oh Atem, I knew you would make the right choice." Atem smirked at her.

"You're right, I did make the right choice." And with that, he pushed her out the front door. Rachel was confused on what happened and waited for an explanation.

"Atem, what are you doing?" she asked. Atem still had his smirk on his face.

"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm making the right choice. If I have to choose between you and Tea, then I would choose Tea in a heartbeat because she is one of the few people in my life that I can relate to. You on the other hand, just care about money and when you're going to get your face posted on the next magazine that comes out. I've always wondered why your father's company is having money problems and plummeting on his way to bankrupt. I guess you're spending too much of it on plastic surgeries and what not. If you think I'll let you come near me just so you can your hands on my company's profits, then you got another thing coming. So you can just find some other sucker who's willing to fall for your charm and leave me the hell alone." he said.

"You're making a big mistake Atem. You don't know what you're doing." she desperately said.

"Oh, but you were the one that said that I made the right choice, remember? You have a nice life." After that was said, he slammed the door in her face. Rachel stood at the door with a disbelief look before she clenched her fists in anger and stormed off.

Atem sighed as he leaned against the door. He was relieved to have her out of his life now and hopes to take the message this time and not come back. He looked over to Tea who was picking up the broken glass that she had dropped on the floor. Atem went over to help her pick up the pieces.

"Why don't I take care of this?" he offered. Tea shook her head.

"No, I have it. I was the one who dropped it any-OW!!" she yelped. She cupped her hand to her chest to see that one of the glass pieces had cut her. Atem brought her hand over to him so he could see it.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

"Yeah, I kinda cut my hand on the glass. I'm such a klutz." she said. Atem examined her hand carefully and noticed that there was a shard of glass stuck inside her hand. He brought her up and headed upstairs to his bathroom to clean her cut. He rinsed her hand before using the tweezers to pull out the shard. Tea hissed in pain when he did that and when Atem pulled it out, he applied some ointment to her cut and bandaged it up. Once he was finished, he looked to Tea who was very grateful.

"Thanks, it feels much better now." she said.

"Your welcome." he said. He still had a hold of her hand and they were both staring at each other. They weren't just staring, they were gazing into each others eyes and they both felt a shiver go through them. Suddenly, without realizing it, they were moving closer to each other very slowly like there was a force pulling them in. Just as they were getting closer and closer, they snapped out of their daze when they heard something drop to the floor and jumped back to see that it was the tweezers. Atem and Tea's face were flushed and they were quiet for a few minutes. Atem broke the silence when he turned back to Tea.

"Uh, you want that drink now?" he asked. Tea nodded.

"Yeah, s-sure." she said nervously. They both went downstairs and back into the living room. Atem took care of the glass that was still on the floor and went into the kitchen to get their drinks. He came back in to see Tea rubbing her injured hand gently. He sat down next to her and handed her her drink.

"Thanks, so do you think that Rachel girl will come back?" Atem shook his head.

"I really hope not. I don't think she would after what I said to her so we don't have to worry about her." She nodded while she took a sip of her drink. They were talking for a while about random stuff until they decided to watch a movie and into the middle part, they both fell asleep with Tea resting her head on Atem's shoulder. It was around midnight when Atem woke up to hear thunder outside and noticed that it was raining. He looked over to his left to see Tea still asleep on his shoulder and he didn't have the heart to wake her. So he grabbed the blanket that was on the back of the sofa and draped it over them. Tea stirred a little in her sleep only to bury her head closer to Atem's neck. Atem smiled when he saw how peaceful she was sleeping and gently kissed her forehead before turning off the TV and going back to sleep.

Rachel was at her mansion still seething with anger at what happened tonight. She couldn't get over the fact that Atem chose someone other than her. She was throwing wine glasses all over the walls and leaving a huge mess behind. Just then, someone came in and she looked up to see the last person that she expected to see again.

"Whoa, I come back after a few months only to find my cousin PMSing." he said. Rachel glared at him.

"I'm not PMSing you asshole! Just what are you doing here anyway?!" she yelled.

"Man, I just wanted to visit, don't have such a hissy fit. What are you so mad about anyway?" he asked.

"Hmph, if you must know, some floozy just ruined my life. She came in and stolen my intended fiance." she said angrily.

"Your fiance, huh? Do you love him or something?" Rachel scoffed.

"What are you crazy? Of course I don't love him. I mean sure he's hot and everything, but I'm just only after his money. I would've had him in my grasp if it wasn't for that girl that he recently met." she said as she threw another glass against the wall.

"You still haven't told me why you're here."

"I wanted to come and get back together with my ex only come to find she's got a new guy to be with." he said.

"Pathetic, you still love her?" she asked. He laughed.

"Yeah right, I never loved her. I just came back to get what's mine." he said. Rachel had a smirk on her face and turned to her cousin.

"How about we help each other? You get what you want and I get what I want." He turned back to her with a smirk of his own.

"I like the way you think." Rachel chuckled evilly.

"Why thank-you, Cousin Renku." she said.

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